absurdity
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
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Ab·surd·i·ty
n. (-ĭ*ty̆) pl. Absurdities (-tĭz).
[L. absurditas: cf. F. absurdite.]
1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. «The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.» Locke.
2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
His travels were full of absurdities.Johnson.
Antonyms by Answers.com:
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absurdity
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Definition: ridiculous situation or behavior
Antonyms: logic, reason, reasonableness, sense
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Definition: ridiculousness
Antonyms: reasonableness, sense
Devil's Dictionary:
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absurdity
A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce
n.
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Absurdity
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"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
- Agnes Repplier
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
- Archibald Macleish
"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
- Thomas Hobbes
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